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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. InfluxDB vs. Solr

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDolphinDB, IncGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122018201720132006
Current release29.0.1, April 2024v2.00.4, January 20222.7.6, April 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoJava plugins
Triggersnonononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnooptimistic locking
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.noyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsyes
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