DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. SwayDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. SwayDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

IRONdb 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

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

swaydb.simer.au

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Circonus LLC.

Simer Plaha

SenX

Initial release

2012

1983

2017

2018

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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 execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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