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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial extension of H2

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

CNRS

Oracle

Initial release

1983

2013

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on H2

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

based on H2

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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