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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012200720122008
Current release29.0.1, April 202410.7, August 20232.0, September 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writeryesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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