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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2005

1983

2013

2003

Current release

14, December 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

via plugins

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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