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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. JaguarDB vs. NuoDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational 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
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cnwww.jaguardb.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.DataJaguar, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122013200420152013
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingsupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.nonoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoyesrights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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