DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. mSQL

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

1983

2005

1994

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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