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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. TimesTen

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19832012201720141998
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 201811 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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