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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SingleStore

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.hawkular.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2012201720142013
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.noFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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