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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. BigObject vs. Hive vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgbigobject.iohive.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bigobject.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSimer Plaha
Initial release20122013201520122018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20223.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceLuayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
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 KerberosnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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