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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

1994

2012

2000

2012

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

4.4, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

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