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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSpatial extension of PostgreSQLLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergreenplum.orgwww.gridgain.compostgis.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePivotal Software Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release19832005200720051993
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.0.0, September 2023GridGain 8.5.13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 formatyes infosince Version 4.2yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPHPC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)yes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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