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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comobjectbox.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release19832010201520172005
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.3 July 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 formatnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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