DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

hive.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2019

1983

2012

2013

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 for users and roles

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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