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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
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 PlatformNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaserockset.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRockset
Initial release20122008201320092019
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereyesnodynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (GQL)yesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnousing Google App EngineJava, SQLErlangno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyesno
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID infotunable commit protocolnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTemporary table
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)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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