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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­filemakeropentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of Applecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release2007198320112005
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 formatnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHPErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoR packages
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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 servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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