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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orghbase.apache.orgopentsdb.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSTS Soft SCTempoIQ
Initial release20122008201120112012
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonosimple authentication-based access control

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