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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Derby vs. Ehcache vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Derby vs. Ehcache vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbywww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20121997200920102018
Current release29.0.1, April 202410.17.1.0, November 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCJCacheHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaJavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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