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DBMS > FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netquasar.aiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release1983200520091987
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
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 factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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