DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

1989

2014

2015

1993

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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