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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Informix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataOracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Document store
Spatial 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
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceplanetscale.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceplanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.OraclePlanetScalequasardb
Initial release20121984200720202009
Current release29.0.1, April 202414.10.FC5, November 202014.1, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and JavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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