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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score36.48
Rank#21  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#312  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score21.54
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM
Initial release198320172013
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.02.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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