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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Hughes Technologies

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2002

1994

2003

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

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 per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

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