DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GigaSpaces vs. NuoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gigaspaces.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Gigaspaces Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

1983

2000

2013

1992

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

15.5, September 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java, SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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