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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS
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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release2012201020101984
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava.NET and CErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
.NEThostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
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 can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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