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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Interbase vs. QuestDB vs. RDFox

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequestdb.io/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEmbarcaderoQuestDB Technology IncOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2012198420142017
Current release29.0.1, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
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-standardRoles, resources, and access types
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Apache DruidInterbaseQuestDBRDFox
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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