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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Heroic

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embedded key-value store for Go.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.mcobject.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMcObjectSpotify
Initial release2012201320012014
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.2, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availableno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoby defining eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning / shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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