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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
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
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release19832011200520092018
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20243.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCErlangScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak Securityno

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