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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Newts vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.jaguardb.com

opennms.github.io/newts

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

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