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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsPivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2012200520162015
Current release30.0.0, June 20247.0.0, September 20235.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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