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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  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 assetsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.gbase.cn
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Hypertable Inc.
Initial release2012201620042009
Current release30.0.0, June 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesyesno

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