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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

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.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2014

2019

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

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
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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control and ACL

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