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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Infobright vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

1997

1983

2005

2007

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Database file passwords

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