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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Netezza vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftIBMAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20122015200020122018
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
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 systemyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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