DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Greenplum vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.greenplum.org

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Pivotal Software Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Tencent

Initial release

2012

2005

2013

2018

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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