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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Score	2.67
Rank	#107	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	46.28
Rank	#23	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	5.33
Rank	#68	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#306	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

hbase.apache.org

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2008

2010

2018

Current release

0.20.0, October 2020

2.2.0, June 2019

3.1.0, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

#1 largest NoSQL database by revenue
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