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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SQLite

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.jaguardb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122010201320152000
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 20243.3 July 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangGoC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsno
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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