DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. GridGain vs. Netezza 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

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

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

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2007

2000

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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 for querying

yes

via plugins

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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, warm standby

since Version 14

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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