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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. openGemini vs. Riak TS vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Huawei and openGemini community

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2022

2015

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.1, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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