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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud-based data warehousing serviceAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseswaydb.simer.auwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeoSpockIBMSimer PlahaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012201420182010
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.0, September 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoJava
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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