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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netquasar.aiterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122011200920182019
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Prolog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorJournaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory journalingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access control

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