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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCCRi and othersAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20122014200820052017
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, May 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
server-lessLinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packagesyes
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-baseddepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layernoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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