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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	44.40
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#211	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.geomesa.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CCRi and others

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1983

2014

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.0.1, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

depending on storage layer

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

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 access control

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