DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FileMaker

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

brytlyt.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Brytlyt

FairCom Corporation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

1979

1983

Current release

5.0, August 2023

V3, October 2020

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

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