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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

prometheus.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2017

2015

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

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++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

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

by Federation

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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