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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1983

2015

2021

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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