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DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. InterSystems Caché vs. KairosDB vs. Prometheus

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbprometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.comkairosdb.github.ioprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleThomas MuellerInterSystems
Initial release19832005199720132015
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric 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 formatnoyesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaC#
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
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 databaseSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlno

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