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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. YugabyteDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

hive.apache.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

2012

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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