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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational 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
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.pinecone.iopostgis.netswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePinecone Systems, IncSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release19832019200520182020
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, 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 formatnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPHPPythonJava
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
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 systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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