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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Brytlyt vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Brytlyt vs. IRONdb vs. NCache vs. RDF4J

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgbrytlyt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.alachisoft.com/­ncacherdf4j.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBrytlytCirconus LLC.AlachisoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122016201720052004
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0, August 2023V0.10.20, January 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and CUDAC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramspartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes, in Luano infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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Apache DruidBrytlytIRONdbNCacheRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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