DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.scylladb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

ScyllaDB

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

2010

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

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 can be defined per object

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Competitive advantages

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