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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Firebolt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebolt vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MaxDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  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 ClickhouseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.hawkular.orgmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.firebolt.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Community supported by Red HatSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release2012202020141984
Current release30.0.0, June 20247.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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