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

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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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 visualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationGridGain Systems, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122013200720132010
Current release29.0.1, April 202415585GridGain 8.5.11.2.2, November 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
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, 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.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
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
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
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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