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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb vs. searchxml

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleInterSystemsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122017199719842015
Current release29.0.1, April 20242018.1.4, May 20207.4.1.1, 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freedepending on used data modelFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyesno
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
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDyes, on a single nodemultiple readers, single writer
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.noyesnono
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.Access rights for users, groups and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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