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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. Riak TS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
realm.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122014201720142015
Current release30.0.0, June 20244.0 (May 2024)3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlang
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoyesyesno
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