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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for Hadoop
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
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Trend Chart
Score106.65
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.79
Rank#89  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score11.58
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera
Initial release200820122013
Current release5.0-rc1, July 202430.0.0, June 20244.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos
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