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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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 dataA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsFatCloudManticore SoftwareTimescale
Initial release20122012201220172017
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20246.0, February 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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