DBMS > Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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