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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SingleStore vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 CouchDBMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.singlestore.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SingleStore Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release2012201020132010
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infohash partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
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 infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
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 databaseFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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Apache DruidIBM CloudantSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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