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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

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

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

geospock.com

hsqldb.org

origodb.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GeoSpock

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1983

2001

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0, September 2019

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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