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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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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.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

1983

2018

2019

Current release

14, December 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

via plugins

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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