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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Transbase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score26.89
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.35
Rank#71  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgclickhouse.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designclickhouse.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsClickhouse Inc.MicrosoftTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122016201320121987
Current release29.0.0, February 2024v23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20232.7.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedkey based and customSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic lockingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.simple rights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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