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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 datamSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2012201219942019
Current release1.20.3, January 202330.0.0, June 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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