DBMS > Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB 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 Transactions

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DolphinDB, Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2018

2000

2013

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Role-based access control

yes

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