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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Interbase vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 HadoopSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn 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 DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orggeospock.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockEmbarcaderoSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201319842018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20222.0, September 2019InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, JavascriptCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.nononoyesyes
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 KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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