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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.netswaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOracleSimer Plaha
Initial release19832011200520182023
Current release19.4.1, November 202123.3, December 20233.4.2, February 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
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 featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cachenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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