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DBMS > FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergeospock.comwww.kingbase.com.cnpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeoSpockBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release198319992005
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.0, September 2019V8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and JavaC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)Standard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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