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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.featurebase.comgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastoreswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.featurebase.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGeoSpockGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201720082018
Current release29.0.1, April 20242022, May 20222.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, JavascriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
hostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, details hereno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnotemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL queriesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonousing Google App Engineno
TriggersnononoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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