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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122010201720122018
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.0, February 20237.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++JavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
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 possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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 databasenonoRole-based access control

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