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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2011

2013

2003

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

with encyption-at-rest

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 rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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