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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. HBase vs. Transbase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financehbase.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201320081987
Current release29.0.1, April 2024155852.3.4, January 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 systemAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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