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DBMS > FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OushuDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.oushu.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleInterSystemsOushu
Initial release198320182005
Current release19.4.1, November 20212023.3, June 20234.0.1, August 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyesKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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