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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Tobias Oetiker

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1999

2003

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

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

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles

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