DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Hive vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	74.07
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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

hive.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

2012

2016

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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)

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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