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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Ingres vs. SpatiaLite vs. Stardog 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

Well established RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.stardog.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Actian Corporation

Alessandro Furieri

Stardog-Union

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2008

2010

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

11.2, May 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Ingres Replicator

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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