DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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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.

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

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

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

kx.com

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

code.kx.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash 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

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

rights management via user accounts

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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