DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Databend vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Databend vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.leanxcale.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.databend.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Databend Labs

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2021

2015

2013

1987

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.0.59, April 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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