DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

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

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

1983

2007

1984

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

commercial, open source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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