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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Well established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netswaydb.simer.auyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleActian CorporationSimer PlahaQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19831974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200520182009
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 formatno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Ingres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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