DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

geospock.com

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GeoSpock

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0, September 2019

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

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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