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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Tarantool

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 dataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#146  Overall
#24  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aiwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbVK
Initial release20122012201020092008
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.0, February 20243.14.1, January 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infointeger and binarystring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonoyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
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 with selectable replication factorAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, write ahead logging
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 infoTransient modeyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
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 can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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