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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SADAS s.r.l.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2010

2006

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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