DBMS > FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza

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Name

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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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Teradata

Yanza

Initial release

1983

2017

2005

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

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++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

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

yes

in Aster File Store

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

R packages

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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