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

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A widely adopted in-memory data gridSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerhazelcast.compostgis.netswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHazelcastSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19832008200520182018
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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 formatyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoReplicated Mapyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access control

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