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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.70
Rank#98  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score19.62
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release20122005
Current release30.0.0, June 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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