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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mysql.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2016

1995

2008

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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