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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tkrzw

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

geospock.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

GeoSpock

Sybase, SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1983

2014

1993

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

2.0, September 2019

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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