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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

druid.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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