DBMS > FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. RRDtool vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. RRDtool vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

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 complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	7.70
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

1983

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

1999

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

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

C++

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

in-process shared library
Pipes

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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