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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ultipa

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDolphinDB, IncGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMUltipa
Initial release20122018200720142019
Current release29.0.1, April 2024v2.00.4, January 2022GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
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
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAdministrators, Users, GroupsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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