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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeoSpockIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release198320102009 infounder the name LiveDB2005
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.0, September 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptErlangC#C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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