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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVSimer Plaha
Initial release19832010200420052018
Current release19.4.1, November 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangCCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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