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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Infobright vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Circonus LLC.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19832014200520172008
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 formatno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnono

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