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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. GridGain vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. GridGain vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 visualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.70
Rank#98  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#307  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score76.53
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gridgain.comjsqldb.org (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.Konrad von BackstromMicrosoft
Initial release20122013200720182010
Current release30.0.0, June 202415585GridGain 8.5.10.8, December 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial, open sourceOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)functions in JavaScriptTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)noneyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
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 systemRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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