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DBMS > FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A multi-model DBMS and application serverSpatial 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 DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachepostgis.netswaydb.simer.auyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.intersystems.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleInterSystemsSimer PlahaQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19831997200520182009
Current release19.4.1, November 20212018.1.4, May 20203.4.2, 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 languageCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-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 formatyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes 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 datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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