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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GraphDB vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE vs. ScyllaDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value 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
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ontotext.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.scylladb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsOntotextCirconus LLC.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)ScyllaDB
Initial release20122000201719912015
Current release29.0.1, April 202410.4, October 2023V0.10.20, January 20185.7ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionalyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes, in Luayesyes, Lua
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
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.nonoyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.noAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Apache DruidGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMIRONdbjBASEScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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