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DBMS > Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.claris.com/­filemakernsdb.iopostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer Plaha
Initial release20131983201720052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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 formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-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 systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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