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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. GridGain vs. SiteWhere

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltduckdb.orgwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designduckdb.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.SiteWhere
Initial release20122013201820072010
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.10, February 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
GoC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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