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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

couchdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2005

1983

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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