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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. RRDtool vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Spotify

Tobias Oetiker

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

1983

2010

2014

1999

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.8.0, 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

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

C++, Go

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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