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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. PlanetScale vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. PlanetScale vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessScalable 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
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document 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
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgplanetscale.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designplanetscale.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsPlanetScaleDataChemist Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2012202020182019
Current release30.0.0, June 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoProlog, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRole-based access control

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