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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RisingWave vs. Transbase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
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 distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RisingWave LabsTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201020221987
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.2, September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptUDFs in Python or Javayes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
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 databaseUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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