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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1983

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C#

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

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

no

no

can be achieved using .NET

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
Scala

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

yes

user defined functions

no

Triggers

yes

yes

Domain Events

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

depending on model

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

no

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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