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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GreptimeDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.greptime.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Greptime Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Simer Plaha

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2022

2012

2018

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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