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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Dragonfly vs. InfluxDB vs. Splunk

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122013202320132003
Current release30.0.0, June 2024155851.0, March 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesscheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysNumeric data and Stringsyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuanoyes
Triggersnoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles
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Apache DruidAxibaseDragonflyInfluxDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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