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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA managed, cloud-native vector databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document 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
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsPinecone Systems, IncSequoiadb Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2012201920132019
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Python.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple password-based access control

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