DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleInterSystemsCirconus LLC.
Initial release1983199720172015
Current release19.4.1, November 20212018.1.4, May 2020V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC and C++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data only
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 formatyesnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
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
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoby Federation
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 nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
FileMakerInterSystems CachéIRONdbPrometheus
Recent citations in the news

Tilda Swinton Wasn't Prepared for 'Problemista' Horror Stories from Audiences Who Recognize Her Toxic Art World ...
14 June 2024, Yahoo Movies UK

Reviews - Features
1 March 2024, Reverse Shot

New customizable ERP platform based on Claris FileMaker released
11 June 2024, openPR

Apple kills Claris, saves FileMaker
3 June 2024, ITPro Today

Tilda Swinton on 'Problemista' Fan Horror Stories About Her Character
1 March 2024, IndieWire

provided by Google News

Cognizant Deploys a Comprehensive Hospital Performance Management Solution at Hunterdon Healthcare
21 February 2012, Cognizant news

AWS, GCP, Oracle, Azure, SAP Lead Cloud DBMS Market: Gartner
12 February 2022, CRN

Epic On EHR Interoperability: Not A '1-Time Project'
10 April 2015, InformationWeek

Associative Data Modeling Demystified – Part1
9 July 2016, Data Science Central

Announcing IBM Spectrum Sentinel: Building a Cyber Resilient Future
24 June 2022, ibm.com

provided by Google News

Application observability firm Apica buys telemetry data startup Circonus and adds more funding
21 February 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Apica Acquires Telemetry Data Management Pioneer Circonus And Lands New Funding
22 February 2024, Datanami

Apica gets $6 million in funding and buys Circonus -
21 February 2024, Enterprise Times

provided by Google News

VTEX scales to 150 million metrics using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus | Amazon Web Services
10 March 2024, AWS Blog

Exadata Real-Time Insight - Quick Start
3 April 2024, Oracle

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see
29 March 2024, IBM

VictoriaMetrics Offers Prometheus Replacement for Time Series Monitoring
17 July 2023, The New Stack

Linux System Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and collectd
1 February 2024, Linux Journal

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here