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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrientDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgeode.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFatCloudOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Community supported by Red HatOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20122012200220142010
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.1, February 20173.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
WindowsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsnoJava, Javascript
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular AlertingHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
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 per client and object definablenoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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