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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

nsdb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ObjectBox Limited

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2017

1999

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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