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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Databricks vs. FileMaker vs. MarkLogic vs. PostGIS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.databricks.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.progress.com/­marklogicpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.databricks.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.DatabricksClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20152013198320012005
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.0, December 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.noyesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infoSQL92yes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
PHPC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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