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DBMS > Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.hawkular.orgwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCommunity supported by Red HatTimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20081983201420172018
Current release7.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20212.13.0, November 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
PHPGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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