DBMS > Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

clickhouse.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

maxdb.sap.com

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

clickhouse.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2012

2016

2013

1984

2003

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary protocol

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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