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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Widely used RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Relational DBMS
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1234.27
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­databasepostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracle
Initial release1983201319802005
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.2.2, November 201823c, September 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
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 formatnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID
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.noyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'no
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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