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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleDataJaguar, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20122015201520132011
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.3 July 20231.2.2, November 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlno

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