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DBMS > EJDB vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

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

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release20121983200520222018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCRustScala
Server operating systemsserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PHPDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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