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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Prometheus vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Prometheus vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
prometheus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aiprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20122013201620152011
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.10, January 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ and CUDAGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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