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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebolt vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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 dataHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
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
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.firebolt.iodoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2012201220202013
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoJava, SQL
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-baseddata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layeryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
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 infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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