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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. Hive vs. mSQL

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhive.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFoundationDBApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHughes Technologies
Initial release20191983201320121994
Current release19.4.1, November 20216.2.28, November 20203.1.3, April 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginssupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
PHP.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesin SQL-layer onlyyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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