DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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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)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

1983

2013

2018

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph 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

Journaling Streams

Active-passive shard replication

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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