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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerIBMCirconus LLC.
Initial release19832005201720172015
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20232.0V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data only
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 formatnononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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