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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.objectbox.io

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ObjectBox Limited

Simer Plaha

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Synchronous replication

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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