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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splunk

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformSpatial extension of SQLiteAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orggeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeoSpockGoogleAlessandro FurieriSplunk Inc.
Initial release2012200820082003
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.0, September 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyesyes
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)yesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonousing Google App Enginenoyes
TriggersnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using PaxosnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDno 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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users and roles

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