DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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