DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

1983

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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