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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. GridGain vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. GridGain vs. OrigoDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gridgain.comorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release19832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20072009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, C++, .NetC#
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole based authorization

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