DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Derby vs. FileMaker vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1997

1983

2011

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

PHP

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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 roles

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