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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. InfluxDB vs. Vitess

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory caching systemDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgblueflood.iocachelot.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewvitess.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsRackspaceThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122013201520132013
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++GoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedpredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTMemcached protocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonosimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidBluefloodCachelot.ioInfluxDBVitess
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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