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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Embarcadero

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

1983

1984

2011

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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