DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2015

2014

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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