DBMS > FileMaker vs. H2 vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2 vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

FileMaker 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 containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

janusgraph.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

InterSystems

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

2005

2018

2017

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

2023.3, June 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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