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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgorigodb.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineSimer Plaha
Initial release20122009 infounder the name LiveDB200120142018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyesno
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole based authorizationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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