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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cnjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphEsgynKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20122013200620152018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 20190.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesno
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 statementsSPARQL is used as query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesJava Stored Proceduresfunctions in JavaScript
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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 KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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