DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TigerGraph

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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.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Initial release

2012

1983

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

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

Active-active shard replication

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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