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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Cachelot.io vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIn-memory caching systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgcachelot.ioquestdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
yanza.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsQuestDB Technology IncAlex KashirinYanza
Initial release20122015201420202015
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Memcached protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnono
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidCachelot.ioQuestDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseYanza
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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