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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB

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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.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2017

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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