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DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus vs. SQL.JS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release19832005201720152012
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoJavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript 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++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
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 nodeShardingnone
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 awareyes infoby Federationnone
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 nodesnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
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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