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DBMS > FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakernsdb.iowww.pinecone.iopostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePinecone Systems, IncSimer Plaha
Initial release19832017201920052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaCScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringString, Number, 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 formatnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
Scala
PythonJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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