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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatPercona
Initial release201220122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142015
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
server-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLnoJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and roles

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