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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsinformationpartners gmbhSingleStore Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20122011201520132011
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.08.5, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux info64 bit version requiredWindows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serveryesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesno
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Apache DruidOpenTSDBsearchxmlSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSTSdb
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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