DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2008

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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