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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2 vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. YugabyteDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.h2database.comquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsThomas MuellerquasardbSiteWhereYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122005200920102017
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.2.220, July 20233.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freepredefined schemedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query languagenoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
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Apache DruidH2QuasardbSiteWhereYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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