DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FileMaker vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

2020

1999

Current release

1703

19.4.1, November 2021

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages with LDAP bindings

PHP

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

LDAP bind authentication

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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