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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122016201620142015
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, May 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonGoScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingyesdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accounts

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