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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFairCom CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20121979201020141992
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V3, October 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyesyes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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