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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 ScioreAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.harperdb.ioprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHarperDB
Initial release20072017198320172015
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoNode.jsGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data only
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 formatnono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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