DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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