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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. RethinkDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Widely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.mysql.compostgis.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20131983199520052009
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.4.0, April 20243.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 formatyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoPHPAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
TriggersnoyesyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissions

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