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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orghive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchprometheus.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchprometheus.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122012201520152003
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby FederationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.nononono
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 Azure authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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