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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. GBase vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

galaxybase.com

www.gbase.cn

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2000

1983

2017

2004

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Role-based access control

yes

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