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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. atoti vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#253  Overall
#13  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgatoti.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsphinxsearch.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.atoti.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsActiveViamIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sphinx Technologies Inc.Teradata
Initial release2012201020011984
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.5.1, February 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree versions availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
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 databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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