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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 visualizationA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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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
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbquasar.aisphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationPerconaquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122013201520092001
Current release29.0.1, April 2024155853.4.10-2.10, November 20173.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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