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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

developers.eventstore.com

docs.firebolt.io

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Event Store Limited

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

2020

2014

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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