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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. QuestDB vs. Trino

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessquestdb.iotrino.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessquestdb.io/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBMMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20122017199220142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)depending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesActive-active shard replicationnoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencydepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID for single-table writesdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003SQL standard access control
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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