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DBMS > FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMKineticaPercona
Initial release19832017201220152005
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.07.1, August 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Active-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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