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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

newdatabase.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Mobiland AG

SiteWhere

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

2018

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

1.1.263, October 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

based on HBase

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Journaling Streams

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Windows-Profile

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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