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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122008201720172012
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App Engineyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
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)nonono

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