DBMS > FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

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

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

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

Primary database model

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Score	46.19
Rank	#22	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#334	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

www.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb

www.kinetica.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Kinetica

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

Initial release

1983

2017

2012

2004

Current release

19, May 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

iOS
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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