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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.datomic.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Cognitect

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

1991

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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