DBMS > Apache Druid vs. EDB Postgres vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EDB Postgres vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.enterprisedb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

EnterpriseDB

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2005

2008

2012

2000

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14, December 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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