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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event StoreTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquasar.aisolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEvent Store LimitedquasardbApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122012201320092006
Current release29.0.1, April 202421.2, February 20212.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 20249.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava plugins
Triggersnononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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Apache DruidEventStoreDBInfluxDBQuasardbSolr
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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