DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2021

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Fixed schema

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

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

integer and binary

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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