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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebolt vs. Greenplum vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iogreenplum.orgwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.firebolt.iodocs.greenplum.orgwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.STS Soft SC
Initial release20122020200520132011
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.0.0, September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxLinuxWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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