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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comprometheus.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19832017201720152001
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++GoC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumeric data onlyno
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 formatnoCan index from XMLno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnononono

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