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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2 vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

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

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.siridb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Thomas Mueller

Cesbit

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

2001

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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