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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 simplicityA relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.monetdb.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.MonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release1983201720042004
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 formatno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luayes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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