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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoMesa vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.geomesa.orgravendb.netrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHCCRi and othersHibernating RhinosSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122007201420102004
Current release29.0.1, April 202410.7, August 20234.0.5, February 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonedepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layer
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 infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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