DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/filemaker

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

DGraph Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

1983

2014

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

simple password-based access control

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