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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHypertable Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122016200920091998
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.10.0, March 20220.9.8.11, March 201611 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 systemyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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