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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker 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 extension of H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCCRi and othersCNRS
Initial release1983201420132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.0.5, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPHPJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14depending on storage layeryes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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