DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL 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

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

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Secondary database models

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	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

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

Website

druid.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2015

2021

2008

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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