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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1983

2013

1984

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.5, January 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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