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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOraclePercona
Initial release1983201120152005
Current release19.4.1, November 202123.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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