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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsqream.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesSQream Technologies
Initial release20122014201019942017
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.4, October 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingnoyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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