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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleTimescale
Initial release2015198320052017
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 formatyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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