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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. openGauss vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsHuawei and openGauss communityRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20122019199320012018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.0, March 20223.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL 2011noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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