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

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn 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 DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netquasar.aiswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19832005200920182018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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 infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole-based access control

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