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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.ioquasar.aiterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsPinecone Systems, IncquasardbDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122014201920092018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptPython.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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