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DBMS > FileMaker vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
postgis.netswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.heavy.aipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release19832016200520182009
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.10, January 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACScalaJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPHPAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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