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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. Titan

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.rockset.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsRocksetSTS Soft SCAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122012201920112012
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST.NET Client APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic shardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
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 organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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