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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CrateDB vs. FileMaker

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cratedb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

cratedb.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Crate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Initial release

2013

1983

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

rights management via user accounts

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

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