DBMS > Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl vs. Virtuoso vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl vs. Virtuoso vs. Warp 10

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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)

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.27
Rank	#73	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#39	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

rocksdb.org

sqrrl.com

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

OpenLink Software

SenX

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

1998

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

7.2.11, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

schema-free

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

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Virtuoso PL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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