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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaidu
Initial release20122012201720122018
Current release29.0.1, April 2024Nov 20, November 20213.1.3, April 20220.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnoACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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