DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Immudb vs. NSDb vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Immudb vs. NSDb vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

nsdb.io

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.immudb.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Codenotary

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2020

2017

2012

2000

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

JavaScript

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

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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