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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb vs. QuestDB vs. Tarantool

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.comquasar.aiquestdb.iowww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterquestdb.io/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDataJaguar, Inc.quasardbQuestDB Technology IncVK
Initial release20122015200920142008
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.3 July 20233.14.1, January 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensionsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonononoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID for single-table writesACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemrights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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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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