DBMS > Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SenX

Initial release

2012

1983

1994

1995

2015

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

via plugins

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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