DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.bigobject.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BigObject, Inc.

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2018

2009

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes, using Riak Security

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