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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
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Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

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

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2010

2014

2005

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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