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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB vs. Valentina Server

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

origodb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Robert Friberg et al

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

1999

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ODBC

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

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

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

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

Write ahead log

yes

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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