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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. Yanza

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Name

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Yanza 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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Yanza

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

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

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP 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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

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