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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. YTsaurus

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Name	Apache Druid  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	YTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database model	Relational DBMS Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 3.25 Rank #90   Overall #47   Relational DBMS #7   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS		Score 0.21 Rank #324   Overall #45   Document stores #48   Key-value stores
Website	druid.apache.org	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentation	druid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­design	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md		ytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
Developer	Apache Software Foundation and contributors	Google	Sybase, SAP	Yandex
Initial release	2012	2014	1993	2023
Current release	29.0.1, April 2024	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache license v2	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	Open Source Apache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	JavaScript		C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Unix	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows	Ubuntu
Data scheme	yes schema-less columns are supported	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	yes
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL for querying	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methods	JDBC RESTful HTTP/JSON API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Clojure JavaScript PHP Python R Ruby Scala	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Go Java JavaScript Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding manual/auto, time-based	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access Control Lists
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