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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. KairosDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
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Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2007

1983

2013

2023

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

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

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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