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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. HBase vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comhbase.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2012201220082018
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.7075, December 20232.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole-based access control

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