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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. Lovefield vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF storeWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release20122000200820142018
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.9.0, July 20234.1.3, July 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB Transactionsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnono
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