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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsOracleRocket SoftwareOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2012201119852005
Current release29.0.1, April 202423.3, December 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionaloptionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnonoyes infoU2 Basicyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Apache DruidOracle NoSQLUniData,UniVerseVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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