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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Sequoiadb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCloud-based data warehousing serviceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20122007201620142013
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.15.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noPL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScript
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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