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DBMS > FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

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

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#204  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release1983200520222018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRustScala
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPHPDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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