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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NSDb vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa

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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

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

nsdb.io/Architecture

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DataChemist Ltd.

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

2019

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS

Linux

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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