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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Prometheus vs. XTDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 dataOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgprometheus.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designprometheus.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201220152019
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes, 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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
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 enginesyes infoby Federationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno

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