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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2019202319832010
Current release1.0, March 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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