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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netswaydb.simer.auwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Simer PlahaParadigma Software
Initial release19832010200520181999
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes 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
yes 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 integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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