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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Yanza

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webyanza.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleChris DavisYanza
Initial release20122023201520062015
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC++Python
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedscheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoNumeric data onlyno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infolockingyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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