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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Fauna vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgfauna.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.fauna.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFauna, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release2012201419832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015
Current release29.0.1, April 202419.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infovia pluginsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesPSQLno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemIdentity management, authentication, and access controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authentication

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