DBMS > FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Well established RDBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2004

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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