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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTenBase vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1983

2017

2020

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.5, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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)

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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