DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
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	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rocksdb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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