DBMS > Apache Druid vs. OpenQM vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenQM vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
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Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

1993

2006

2014

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.4-12

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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