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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. SQLite vs. Valentina Server

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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.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Symas

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

1983

2011

2000

1999

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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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