DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Access vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Access vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

1992

2015

2000

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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