DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. InfinityDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RavenDB

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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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

boilerbay.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Boiler Bay Inc.

Percona

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2012

1983

2002

2015

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

4.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

JavaScript

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

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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