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DBMS > FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleInterSystemsOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Paradigma Software
Initial release198320182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19981999
Current release19.4.1, November 20212023.3, June 202310 R1, October 2018Release 22.15.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsPL/SQLyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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