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DBMS > FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
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.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakeross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleTobias OetikerByteDance, originally TerarkVictoriaMetrics
Initial release1983199920162018
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.8.0, 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyno
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
C++ API
Java API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono

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