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DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. Prometheus

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­docprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.Symas
Initial release19832005201720112015
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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 pluginsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
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 databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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