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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA multi-model DBMS and application serverMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­datastorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.intersystems.commanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleInterSystemsManticore Software
Initial release20071983200819972017
Current release19.4.1, November 20212018.1.4, May 20206.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (GQL)yesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesusing Google App Engineyesuser defined functions
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple 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 (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesno

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