DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.firebirdsql.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

2008

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.8, December 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

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
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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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)

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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