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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. Coveo vs. Hive vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.coveo.comhive.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iodocs.coveo.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.CoveoApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSimer Plaha
Initial release20122015201220122018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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