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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
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Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

pouchdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1983

2012

2008

1987

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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