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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 dataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intrositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbRisingWave LabsSiteWhere
Initial release20122012200920222010
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
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 infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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