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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1995

2011

1984

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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