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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. chDB vs. Graphite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

doc.chdb.io

graphite.readthedocs.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chris Davis

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2023

2006

2018

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

server-less

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Role-based access control

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