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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle
Initial release2007201219832017
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++PHPGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnonoyesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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