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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.compostgis.netterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.compostgis.net/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122017201720052018
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20233.4.2, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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 XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infobased on PostgreSQLGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infobased on PostgreSQLJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control

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