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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.dolphindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

1997

2018

1983

1994

2005

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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