DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Percona

Initial release

2012

2015

1983

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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