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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

apple.github.io/foundationdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FoundationDB

Manticore Software

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2000

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

6.2.28, November 2020

6.0, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

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