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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. openGemini vs. Transbase

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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)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Huawei and openGemini community

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

1987

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.1, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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