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

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

postgis.net/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Simer Plaha

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1983

2005

2018

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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