DBMS > EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2000

1983

2013

1999

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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