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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122010199719911984
Current release29.0.1, April 20242018.1.4, May 20205.77.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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