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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BoltDB vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAn embedded key-value store for Go.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
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.
Initial release2012201319832017
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyesyes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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