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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MonetDB BV

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2004

2005

2003

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and roles

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