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DBMS > FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Titan

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakernsdb.ioorigodb.compostgis.netgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architectureorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRobert Friberg et alAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release198320172009 infounder the name LiveDB20052012
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC#CJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 formatnono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
Scala
.NetClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnodepending on modelyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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