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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMonetDB BVHughes TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122016200419942016
Current release29.0.1, April 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding via remote tablesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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