DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BaseX vs. FileMaker vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

basex.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.basex.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BaseX GmbH

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2007

1983

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 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

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

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

yes

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