DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. ITTIA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. FoundationDB vs. ITTIA

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

FoundationDB

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2007

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

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

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Database file passwords

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