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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverKey-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
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtableopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122015201120152011
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
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 zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
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)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnomultiple readers, single writerno
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)noDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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