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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. Brytlyt vs. QuestDB vs. StarRocks

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgatoti.iobrytlyt.ioquestdb.iowww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.atoti.iodocs.brytlyt.ioquestdb.io/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsActiveViamBrytlytQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2012201620142020
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0, August 20232.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++ and CUDAJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Apache DruidatotiBrytlytQuestDBStarRocks
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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