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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GBase vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2004

1985

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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