DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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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

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.postgres-xl.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2007

2021

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

2.5.0, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

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

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes (replicated cache)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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