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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.aiquestdb.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDGraph LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20122017198320092014
Current release29.0.1, April 202419.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
GoPHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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