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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HarperDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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 dataA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleHarperDB
Initial release2012201220172017
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaNode.js
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoStrict serializable isolationAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles

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