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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. OpenSearch vs. Speedb

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
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	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

kylin.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Amazon Web Services

Speedb

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.1.0, July 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

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 Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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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Specific characteristics

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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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