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DBMS > FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TempoIQ

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablestempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftMicrosoftTempoIQ
Initial release19832013199220122012
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.7.6, April 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple rights management via user accountsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturessimple authentication-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
FileMakerInfluxDBMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft Azure Table StorageTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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