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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. CrateDB vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

cratedb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cratedb.com/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Crate

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2013

1983

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

yes

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

rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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