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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

arcadedb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Arcade Data

Google

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.1.0, July 2020

September 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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