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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. SWC-DB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareAlex Kashirin
Initial release19832017201720172020
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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 formatnonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPHPGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nono

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