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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. KairosDB vs. Riak TS vs. TigerGraph

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2017

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

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.

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

Role-based access control

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