DBMS > FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1983

2005

2009

2010

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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