DBMS > FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1983

1999

2010

2006

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

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

Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

PHP

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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