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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionThe 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.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSybase, SAPSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20051983199320182019
Current release14, December 202119.4.1, November 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHPDelphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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