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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

Hughes Technologies

IBM

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2014

1994

2000

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

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