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

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB 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)

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	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.42
Rank	#161	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2000

1983

2013

2018

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

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

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

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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