DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector 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	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

2014

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

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

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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