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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Kinetica vs. SwayDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score3.47
Rank#93  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comswaydb.simer.auwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.kinetica.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsKineticaSimer PlahaRocket Software
Initial release2012201220181985
Current release29.0.1, April 20247.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptional
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
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 on table levelnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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