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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Geode vs. SAP HANA vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2002

2010

1985

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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