DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#96	Overall
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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.firebirdsql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.exasol.com/resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Exasol

Firebird Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

1989

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

5.0.1, August 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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