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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webignite.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docskairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisApache Software Foundation
Initial release19832006201520132014
Current release19.4.1, November 2021Apache Ignite 2.61.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, .NetJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlno

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