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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. EDB Postgres

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. EDB Postgres

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBEnterpriseDB
Initial release2012201320122005
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 202114, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-components
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or range
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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