DBMS > Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. Elasticsearch vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. Elasticsearch vs. KeyDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

atoti.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.atoti.io

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.keydb.dev

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ActiveViam

Elastic

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2019

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.6, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

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