DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2014

2006

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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