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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. CockroachDB vs. FeatureBase vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.featurebase.comhsqldb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.featurebase.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCockroach LabsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsSimer Plaha
Initial release20122015201720012018
Current release29.0.1, April 202423.1.1, May 20232022, May 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGoJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supporteddynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL queriesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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