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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. FileMaker vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

1983

1991

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.7

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

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

via plugins

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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