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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Stardog vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.stardog.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.heavy.aidocs.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Stardog-UnionAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122016201020201987
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.10, January 20227.3.0, May 20200.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanoyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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