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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Greenplum vs. InfluxDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.gigaspaces.comgreenplum.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.greenplum.orgdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDolphinDB, IncGigaspaces TechnologiesPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20122018200020052013
Current release29.0.1, April 2024v2.00.4, January 202215.5, September 20207.0.0, September 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .NetGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesno
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
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.noyesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts
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