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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. Qdrant

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 visualizationWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecassandra.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGridGain Systems, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release20122013200820072021
Current release29.0.1, April 2024155854.1.3, July 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes (replicated cache)Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
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 implementationsKey-based authentication
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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