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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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 queriesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn 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 imposedRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgbigobject.iohive.apache.orgopentsdb.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bigobject.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebookcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release20122015201220112018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScala
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 VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoAtomic 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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