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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. Tarantool vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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 HadoopTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.tarantool.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifyVKTempoIQ
Initial release20122013201420082012
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20222.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Open binary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersnononoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
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 Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
simple authentication-based access control

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