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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NCache vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatAlachisoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012201420052019
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Apache DruidHawkular MetricsNCachePinecone
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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