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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FileMaker 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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#137	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2019

1983

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

PHP

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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