DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NCache

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

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

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Exasol

Google

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

1989

2005

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

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

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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