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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.
Initial release20122000198320092017
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 20210.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Java
Lua
Python
R
PHPC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesnoyes, in Lua
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono

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