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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCNRSApache Software Foundation
Initial release19832013200120122009
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.7.2, June 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPHPJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2Java, SQLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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