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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 durabilityHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobilePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.hawkular.orgobjectbox.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.iosql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox LimitedAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122012201420172012
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTProprietary native APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
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 peersselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
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)yesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 developmentnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoyesno
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