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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. LeanXcale vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 IgniteA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.leanxcale.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.LeanXcaleSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20122008200720152022
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.1v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++, .NetRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-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
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
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)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyes
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 implementationsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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