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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.claris.com/­filemakerhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHughes Technologies
Initial release20191983199420172005
Current release19.4.1, November 20214.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
PHPC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 14noneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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