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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

origodb.com

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

1983

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2008

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

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

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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