DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. WakandaDB

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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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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