DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Doris vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite

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Name

Description

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

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Chris Davis

Initial release

2012

2017

1983

2006

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL client

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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