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

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	3.18
Rank	#84	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	11.68
Rank	#41	Overall
	#25	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

druid.apache.org

impala.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

30.0.0, June 2024

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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