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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hypertable vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2013

1999

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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