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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Graph Engine vs. HarperDB vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.graphengine.iowww.harperdb.iopostgis.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.harperdb.io/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftHarperDBOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release19832010201720051998
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, August 20213.4.2, February 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CNode.jsC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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 formatnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusteryes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, using LMDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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