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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Linter vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

relex.ru

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1990

2012

2018

2011

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

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

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

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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