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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Linter vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

linter.ru

objectbox.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.objectbox.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

relex.ru

ObjectBox Limited

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

1990

2017

2021

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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