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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ehcache vs. MonetDB vs. Riak TS vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

MonetDB BV

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2009

2004

2015

2010

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes, limited

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users and roles

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