DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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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	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Percona

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

2000

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

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, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-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

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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