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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Bangdb vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 graphGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory JavaScript DBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bangdb.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBGridGain Systems, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20122012200720141993
Current release29.0.1, April 2024BangDB 2.0, October 2021GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL like support with command line toolANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
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)yes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
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 modeyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes (enterprise version only)Security Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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