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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsql.js.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbwww.oushu.com/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftOushuAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release201220142012
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesno
TriggersnoJavaScriptyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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