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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. DolphinDB vs. SingleStore

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.82
Rank#65  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.dolphindb.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datastax.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationDataStaxDolphinDB, IncSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20122014201120182013
Current release30.0.0, June 20245.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20196.8, April 2020v2.00.4, January 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAdministrators, Users, GroupsFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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Apache DruidApache PhoenixDatastax EnterpriseDolphinDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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