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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InfluxDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  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 dataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsManticore SoftwareDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122013201420172018
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 20246.0, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript 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
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsnonoRole-based access control
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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