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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. jBASE vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

1991

2017

1994

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

5.7

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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