DBMS > Apache Druid vs. CrateDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. CrateDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

cratedb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cratedb.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Crate

Konrad von Backstrom

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2017

2021

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.8, December 2018

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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