DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. SQLite

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

FatCloud

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

1983

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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