DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Cubrid vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

fauna.com

www.gbase.cn

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.fauna.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2004

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Scala

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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