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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWell established RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreskx.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.actian.com/­ingrescode.kx.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsActian CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032012
Current release29.0.1, April 202411.2, May 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCqJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
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-standardrights management via user accountsno
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Apache DruidIngresKdbSQL.JS
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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