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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. HarperDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 dataUltra-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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsHarperDB
Initial release20122012201720132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.1, August 20212.7.6, April 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supporteddynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.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
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nouser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
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 and rolessimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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