DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. gStore

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. Brytlyt vs. FileMaker vs. gStore

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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

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

en.gstore.cn

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

docs.brytlyt.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Brytlyt

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

1983

2016

Current release

5.0, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

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

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

ACID

yes

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.

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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