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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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.Well established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleActian CorporationCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release19831974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172019
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, Number, Boolean
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Ingres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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