DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
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	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/google/leveldb

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chris Davis

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2006

2011

2014

2008

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Unix

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

HTTP API
Sockets

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

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