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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquestdb.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2012201220142014
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
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 rolesno
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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