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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ignite

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignite.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2apacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMApache Software Foundation
Initial release198320041983 infohost version2015
Current release19.4.1, November 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c12.1, October 2016Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsStandard with numerous extensionsyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesPHPC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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