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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. MonetDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. MonetDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMonetDB BVMireoSplice MachineSTS Soft SC
Initial release20122004202020142011
Current release29.0.1, April 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding via remote tablesFixed-grid hypercubesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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