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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. OrigoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

origodb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

Robert Friberg et al

Rocket Software

Initial release

1983

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

1985

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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