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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. Memcached vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSimer PlahaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20122012200320182010
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 20221.6.25, March 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoJava
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic execution of operationsACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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 rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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