DBMS > FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

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.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Cesbit

Initial release

1983

1992

2013

1999

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

simple rights management via user accounts

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