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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverpostgis.netswaydb.simer.auwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePerconaSimer PlahaVK
Initial release19832008200520182008
Current release19.4.1, November 20218.0.36-28, 20243.4.2, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 formatyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesyesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesPHPAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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