DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

IBM

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

1983

2014

1989

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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