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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 HBaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsDataChemist Ltd.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2012201120181998
Current release30.0.0, June 202411.0.0, January 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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