DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

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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 global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cloudflare

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2018

2021

2009

2006

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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