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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. Firebolt vs. TerminusDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.firebolt.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.firebolt.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FatCloud

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2020

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

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