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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. Informix vs. SwayDB

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Simer Plaha
Initial release2018198319842018
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202219.4.1, November 202114.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ and JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
PHP.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsno

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