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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgsplicemachine.comswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsSplice MachineSimer PlahaTimescale
Initial release20122012201420182017
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20243.1, March 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infoJavanouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesyesno
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, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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