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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.ai
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb
Initial release20122008200720102009
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .NetErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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