DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2000

2010

2014

2005

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15.5, September 2020

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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