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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality datadata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSiteWhereSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122012201320102011
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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