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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EventStoreDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Event StoreTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.eventstore.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.ai
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEvent Store LimitedCirconus LLC.quasardb
Initial release2012201220172009
Current release29.0.1, April 202421.2, February 2021V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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