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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 visualizationDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAnalytics Platform for Big DataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.splunk.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationSplunk Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122013201320032000
Current release30.0.0, June 2024155852.7.6, April 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesno
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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