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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

objectbox.io

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

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

1994

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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