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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Galaxybase vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
Python

Java
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Role-based access control

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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