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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graphite vs. NSDb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris Davis
Initial release19992012201520062017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20241.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaPythonJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno

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