DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Manticore Software

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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 object

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control

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