DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Drizzle vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

1984

2021

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.6, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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