DBMS > Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Coveo vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Coveo vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

clickhouse.com

www.coveo.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.coveo.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

Coveo

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

1991

2018

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

key based and custom

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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