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DBMS > Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.claris.com/­filemakermaxdb.sap.compostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release1999198319842005
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202319.4.1, November 20217.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infovia pluginsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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