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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.exasol.comwww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsExasolFirebird FoundationHazelcast
Initial release201220002000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082014
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithmnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlno

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