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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20122009201420082005
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.10.0, March 20225.0.0, May 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.nonononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoR packages
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layernoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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