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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Dragonfly vs. NuoDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaserockset.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdoc.nuodb.comdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.RocksetSimer Plaha
Initial release20122023201320192018
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedscheme-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesdynamic typingno
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava, SQLnono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-baseddata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID infotunable commit protocolnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoMVCCyesyes
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.noyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPassword-based authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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