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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GigaSpaces vs. JaguarDB vs. OrientDB vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.jaguardb.comorientdb.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGigaspaces TechnologiesDataJaguar, Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122000201520102001
Current release29.0.1, April 202415.5, September 20203.3 July 20233.2.29, March 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-99 for query and DML statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava, Javascriptno
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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