DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.intersystems.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

InterSystems

Manticore Software

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

1983

1997

2017

2000

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2018.1.4, May 2020

6.0, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C#
C++
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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 services

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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