DBMS > FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

1983

2013

2020

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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