DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Greenplum vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

greenplum.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.greenplum.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Pivotal Software Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2015

1983

2005

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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