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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. OpenTSDB

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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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.Cloud 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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime 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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­spotify/­heroicopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorespotify.github.io/­heroicopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFatCloudGoogleSpotifycurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20122012201720142011
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
WindowshostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnono
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.nonono
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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