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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#377  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrocksdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyFacebook, Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122013201420132016
Current release29.0.0, February 20248.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
GoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonono

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