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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FileMaker vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakeropentsdb.netpostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of Applecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release20121983201120052018
Current release1.20.3, January 202319.4.1, November 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesno
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 formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infovia pluginsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC++PHPErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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 sourcenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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