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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Initial release

2007

1983

1980

2005

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

23c, September 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

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, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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