DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB 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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

2011

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

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

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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