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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.hawkular.orgnsdb.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidensdb.io/­Architecturedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCommunity supported by Red HatTimescale
Initial release20121983201420172017
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++PHPGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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