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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series 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
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.firebolt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFatCloudFirebolt Analytics Inc.Googlecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122012202020172011
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
WindowshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.no

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