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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. RRDtool

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Industry 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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­bigtableoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperEnterpriseDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleTobias Oetiker
Initial release2005198320151999
Current release14, December 202119.4.1, November 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric 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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHPC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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 proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple 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)no

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