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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS vs. Titan

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticGridGain Systems, Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122010200720142012
Current release29.0.1, April 20248.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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