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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FileMaker vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/filemaker

rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rockset

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

1983

2019

1999

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

Numeric data only

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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