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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Automatically 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.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time 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
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­datastoreoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleTobias OetikerTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20131983200819992022
Current release1558519.4.1, November 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, details hereNumeric data onlyyes
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 formatnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (GQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared library
Pipes
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesusing Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using Paxosnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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.noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles

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