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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Memcached vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Sparka GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgsplicemachine.comsqream.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSplice MachineSQream TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20122003201420172018
Current release30.0.0, June 20241.6.29, June 20243.1, March 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavauser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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