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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine

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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)

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

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

yes

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

yes

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