DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. PieCloudDB vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.openpie.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

IBM

OpenPie

Initial release

1983

1989

2000

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.1, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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