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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Titan

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsObjectBox LimitedquasardbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092012
Current release29.0.1, April 202410 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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