DBMS > Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

STS Soft SC

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

1999

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

based on H2

none

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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