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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Databend vs. EDB Postgres vs. MaxDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Databend vs. EDB Postgres vs. MaxDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.enterprisedb.commaxdb.sap.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.databend.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDatabend LabsEnterpriseDBSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Timescale
Initial release20122021200519842017
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.59, April 202314, December 20217.9.10.12, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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