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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Citus vs. FeatureBase vs. Galaxybase vs. Newts

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.featurebase.comgalaxybase.comopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.citusdata.comdocs.featurebase.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司OpenNMS Group
Initial release20122010201720172014
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.1, December 20182022, May 2022Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
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 systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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