DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2007

2010

2005

2021

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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