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

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool 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)

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

www.tarantool.io

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

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

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2000

1983

2013

2008

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Open binary protocol

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

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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