DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Titan

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph 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	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

1983

2007

1993

2012

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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