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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GeoSpock

Google

Initial release

1983

2014

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

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

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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

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