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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2012

2008

2013

2006

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL for querying

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

stored procedures and stored functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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