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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.janusgraph.orgkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaEsgynLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20122013201520172013
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20220.6.3, February 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava Stored Proceduresyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
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 Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access control

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