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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.quasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122013201720092014
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in LuanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeno
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 KerberosnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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