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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iomanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris DavisManticore Software
Initial release20122006201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.2.2, November 20186.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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