DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Chris Davis

IBM

Percona

Initial release

2012

2010

2006

2017

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.0

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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