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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Citus vs. etcd vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Access

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA distributed reliable key-value storeData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.citusdata.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.citusdata.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
graphite.readthedocs.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisMicrosoft
Initial release2012201020061992
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.1, December 20183.4, August 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnoyesyes, watching key changesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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-standardnonono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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