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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Valentina Server

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 visualizationCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationGoogleMicrosoftParadigma Software
Initial release20122013201720161999
Current release29.0.1, April 2024155855.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsTransact SQLyes
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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