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DBMS > FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. Sqrrl vs. TinkerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. Sqrrl vs. TinkerGraph vs. ToroDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker 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. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakeross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsqrrl.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleTobias OetikerAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.8Kdata
Initial release19831999201220092016
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPHPC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entitynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)noAccess rights for users and roles

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