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

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleQdrantSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19832005202120182018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCRustScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannoyes
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 formatyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 authenticationnoRole-based access control

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