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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Informix vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Trend Chart

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Oracle

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1984

2011

2010

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

23.3, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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