DBMS > FileMaker vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. Redis vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. Redis vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	155.94
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hazelcast

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2008

2005

2009

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Replicated Map

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

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