DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1983

1989

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

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

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

yes

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