DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. SQream DB

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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.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.55
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Score	0.74
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	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

1983

2007

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

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

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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