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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb 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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

memgraph.com

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

memgraph.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Memgraph Ltd

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2009

2000

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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

in enterprise version only

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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