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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEsgynChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20122015200620162008
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.10, January 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaPythonC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Unix
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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