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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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 latencyDataStax 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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datastax.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation and contributorsDataStaxGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM
Initial release20122015201120072014
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.0, September 20236.8, April 2020GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per objectSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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