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DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIndustry 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperExasolClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyTobias Oetiker
Initial release2000198320141999
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric 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 formatnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
PHPC 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 functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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