DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RethinkDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 dataCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20122012201220102009
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnolimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousers and table-level permissions

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache DrillApache DruidFirebase Realtime DatabaseIBM CloudantRethinkDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

show all

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

MapR to Speak on Stream Processing Systems, Apache Spark and Drill at Industry Events in January
27 May 2024, Yahoo Movies UK

Apache Drill vs. Apache Spark — Which SQL query engine is better for you?
23 September 2019, Towards Data Science

Apache Drill case study: A tutorial on processing CSV files
9 June 2016, TheServerSide.com

Apache Drill Poised to Crack Tough Data Challenges
19 May 2015, Datanami

Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
31 August 2021, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Apache Druid Wins Best Big Data Product in the 2023 BigDATAwire Readers' Choice Awards
26 January 2024, Datanami

'Lucifer' Botnet Turns Up the Heat on Apache Hadoop Servers
21 February 2024, Dark Reading

New DDoS malware Attacking Apache big-data stack, Hadoop, & Druid Servers
26 February 2024, GBHackers

Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
16 June 2022, The Next Platform

Imply advances Apache Druid real-time analytics database
20 September 2022, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Realtime vs Cloud Firestore: Which Firebase Database to go?
8 March 2024, Appinventiv

Atos cybersecurity blog: Misconfigured Firebase: A real-time cyber threat
18 January 2024, Atos

Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
18 March 2024, The Register

Google Firebase may have exposed 125M records from misconfigurations
19 March 2024, SC Media

Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords
19 March 2024, BleepingComputer

provided by Google News

Cloudant Best (and Worst) Practices — Part 1
18 March 2019, ibm.com

Intro to Enterprise Cloud Storage: How to Set Up a Cloudant Database
1 December 2014, Linux.com

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes
26 September 2019, EnterpriseAI

IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloudant: Serverless Data and Infrastructure
16 August 2021, ibm.com

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

provided by Google News

An introduction to building realtime apps with RethinkDB
9 July 2022, devmio

How to Use RethinkDB with Node.js Applications — SitePoint
16 December 2015, SitePoint

Stripe acquires team behind NoSQL database startup RethinkDB
5 October 2016, VentureBeat

MongoDB: The Popular Database for IoT
15 August 2023, Open Source For You

RethinkDB is dead, and MongoDB isn't what killed it
24 January 2017, TechRepublic

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here