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

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

nsdb.io

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

1983

2017

2005

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

PHP

Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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