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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1987

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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