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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. Kinetica vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time 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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.kinetica.comprometheus.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.heavy.aidocs.immudb.iodocs.kinetica.comprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.CodenotaryKinetica
Initial release20122016202020122015
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.10, January 20221.2.3, April 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAGoC, C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like syntaxSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoRound robinShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
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.noyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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