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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequasar.aiwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleIBMquasardb
Initial release20122017201420092017
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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