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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Databricks vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Databricks vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serveropentsdb.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.databricks.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serveropentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDatabricksCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122013201419892011
Current release29.0.1, April 2024SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingwith Databricks SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on Cassandratables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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