DBMS > FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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 ElasticSearch

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/google/leveldb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Spotify

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1983

2014

2013

2011

2013

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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