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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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 dataAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.h2database.comboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Thomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122015200520022010
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.2.220, July 20234.0V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
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)
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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