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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Simer Plaha
Initial release19832008201020052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesyesno
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 14yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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