DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
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	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2007

2016

1983

1998

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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