DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

couchdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

pouchdb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2005

1983

2012

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

PHP

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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