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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2011

2010

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

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