DBMS > FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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