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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. IRONdb vs. PieCloudDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.graphengine.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.openpie.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Circonus LLC.

OpenPie

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2010

2017

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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