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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. HyperSQL

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.84
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of Apple
Initial release2015201619832001
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infovia pluginsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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