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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201220122012
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20241.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnono

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