DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

1983

2018

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2023.3, June 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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