DBMS > Apache Druid vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenQM vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2012

1993

2013

2019

1999

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.4-12

8.11.4, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

Numeric data only

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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