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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. PostGIS

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDoltHub IncClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20181983201020152005
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.3 July 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
PHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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