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DBMS > FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. SiteWhere

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleQdrantSiteWhere
Initial release1983200520212010
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRustJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 formatyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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