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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. InfluxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Splunk

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectRobert Friberg et alSplunk Inc.
Initial release2012201220132009 infounder the name LiveDB2003
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.7075, December 20232.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnosimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorizationAccess rights for users and roles
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Apache DruidDatomicInfluxDBOrigoDBSplunk
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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