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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. Speedb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsKineticaSpeedb
Initial release201220122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2020
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.1, August 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Apache DruidKineticaPostgres-XLSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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