DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2006

2013

2008

2005

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Unix

Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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