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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. GeoSpock vs. Graphite vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbasex.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHGeoSpockChris DavisAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012200720062008
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 licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
server-less
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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