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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Infobright vs. MaxDB vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

maxdb.sap.com

siridb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Cesbit

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2005

1984

2017

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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