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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score134.79
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseprometheus.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9prometheus.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20122010199120152013
Current release29.0.0, February 20248.6, January 20235.78.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalNumeric data onlyno
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyesyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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