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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#30	Overall
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Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.firebirdsql.org

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Firebird Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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