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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Couchbase vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.couchbase.com

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.couchbase.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2017

2011

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

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

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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