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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. BigObject vs. HBase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column store
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
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebigobject.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2012201320152008
Current release29.0.1, April 2024155852.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuayes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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