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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyCirconus LLC.informationpartners gmbhSingleStore Inc.
Initial release19832014201720152013
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20181.08.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
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++C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 formatnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in Luayes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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FileMakerHeroicIRONdbsearchxmlSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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