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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BaseX vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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Score	2.94
Rank	#104	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#143	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#321	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#206	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.basex.org

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

quasardb

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2007

2009

2004

Current release

0.22.1, December 2021

9.7.2, May 2022

3.13.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

integer and binary

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

High-performance , high-speed, fully integrated timeseries database Seamlessly combines...
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Competitive advantages

High performance in a cost-effective small package Real-time results for even large...
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Typical application scenarios

Tick database Predictive maintenance Pre-deal checks Large scale monitoring
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Key customers

Large EU investment banks US based hedge funds Orolia Tellmeplus
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Market metrics

Has been running in very demanding production environments since 2013 Rapid adoption...
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Licensing and pricing models

Community edition limited to 2 nodes and 16 GiB of storage per node available for...
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