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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1994

2018

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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