DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

basex.org

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.basex.org

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

1984

2013

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

10.7, August 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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