DBMS > Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. SQLite

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Well established RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1979

1983

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2000

Current release

V3, October 2020

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

11.2, May 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

PHP

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

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

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

MVCC

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
» more

Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
» more

Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
» more

Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
» more

Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
» more

News

Scaling Data Collection: Solving Renewable Energy Challenges with InfluxDB
6 June 2024

Deadman Alerts with Grafana and InfluxDB Cloud 3.0
5 June 2024

Chasing the Skies: Monitoring Flights with InfluxDB
4 June 2024

Monitoring Your Cloud Environments and Applications with InfluxDB
30 May 2024

Webinar Recap: Unleash the Full Potential of Your Time Series Data with InfluxDB and AWS
29 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.