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

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.firebolt.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2020

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.0, June 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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