DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

InterSystems

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2010

1997

1995

1984

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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