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DBMS > FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#171  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleQdrantSimer Plaha
Initial release1983200520212018
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 infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCRustScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationnone
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 datanoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationno

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