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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational 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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20122009201320011999
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocolODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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