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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Cubrid vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 visualizationCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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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
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcubrid.org/­manualswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20122013200820072010
Current release29.0.1, April 20241558511.0, January 2021GridGain 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 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++, JavaJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyesANSI-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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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