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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.memcached.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.ehcache.org/documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2003

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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