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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM
Initial release20122015201620072017
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.0, September 2023GridGain 8.5.12.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonJava, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)Active-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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