DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. Prometheus

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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.

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

Well established RDBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value 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	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2012

2017

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

yes

by Federation

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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