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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite vs. StarRocks vs. Trafodion

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.starrocks.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122009200820202014
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 20202.5.3, March 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoconsistent hashingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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