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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gigaspaces.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCCRi and othersGigaspaces TechnologiesHazelcast
Initial release2012201420002008
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.0.5, February 202415.5, September 20205.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-baseddepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
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.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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