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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. LeanXcale vs. Speedb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. LeanXcale vs. Speedb vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBAn 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 DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
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
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.leanxcale.comwww.speedb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaLeanXcaleSpeedbSimer Plaha
Initial release20122013201520202018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough Apache Derbynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
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 Kerberosnono
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Apache DruidApache ImpalaLeanXcaleSpeedbSwayDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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