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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Bangdb vs. Geode vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbangdb.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bangdb.comgeode.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20122012200220141994
Current release29.0.1, April 2024BangDB 2.0, October 20211.1, February 201718.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnono
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.nonononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes (enterprise version only)Access rights per client and object definablenono

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