DBMS > Apache Druid vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2013

2016

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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