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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented 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
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyWakanda SAS
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820142012
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, January 20242.3.4, January 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes

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