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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

1984

2013

2001

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 and groups

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