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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerhazelcast.compostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHazelcastSimer Plaha
Initial release20121983200820052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCScala
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesno
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PHP.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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