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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 vs. NCache vs. SQLite

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Alachisoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2019

1983

host version

2005

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

12.1, October 2016

5.3.3, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

none

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

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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