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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

OpenPie

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

.NET

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

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

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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