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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermanticoresearch.compostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmanual.manticoresearch.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleManticore SoftwareSimer Plaha
Initial release1983201720052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20216.0, February 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesno
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 formatCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesPHPElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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