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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ingres vs. Realm vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataWell established RDBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrealm.iosql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.actian.com/­ingresrealm.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsActian CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420122018
Current release29.0.1, April 202411.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesIngres Replicatornonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono

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