DBMS > Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. STSdb vs. SWC-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

Spatial extension of H2

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

IBM

STS Soft SC

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2013

1983

host version

2011

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

12.1, October 2016

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

based on H2

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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