DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

fauna.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.fauna.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Fauna, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Percona

Initial release

2012

2014

1983

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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