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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. IRONdb vs. PlanetScale vs. SwayDB

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.graphengine.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/planetscale.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftCirconus LLC.PlanetScaleSimer Plaha
Initial release19832010201720202018
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++GoScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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 formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID at shard levelAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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