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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2012198319922011
Current release19.4.1, November 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesPHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Based on Windows Authentication

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