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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. dBASE vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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 dataLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.dbase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.basex.orgwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaseX GmbHAsthon TateCirconus LLC.
Initial release2012200719792017
Current release30.0.0, June 202411.2, August 2024dBASE 2019, 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
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
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes, in Lua
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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 and rolesno

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