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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2019

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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