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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FileMaker vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­filemakerpostgis.netswaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSimer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release2007198320052018
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCScala
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 formatyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHPJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 servicesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyes

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