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DBMS > BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release20151983200520182020
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infovia pluginsyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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