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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Linter vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.RDBMS for high security requirementsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorelinter.ruobjectbox.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGooglerelex.ruObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122017199020172018
Current release29.0.1, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access control
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