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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. PieCloudDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupOpenPie
Initial release2012201220082014
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.3.4, January 20212.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 queryingnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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 Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
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 systemyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache DruidFirebase Realtime DatabaseHBaseNewtsPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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