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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

1983

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on PostgreSQL

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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