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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. FileMaker vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. RRDtool

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.claris.com/­filemakergeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastoreoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAxibase CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGeoSpockGoogleTobias Oetiker
Initial release2013198320081999
Current release1558519.4.1, November 20212.0, September 20191.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes, details hereNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnousing Google App Engineno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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