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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. InfluxDB vs. Splunk vs. YDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftSplunk Inc.Yandex
Initial release20122010201320032019
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
.NETLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
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
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
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 rolesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Apache DruidGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityInfluxDBSplunkYDB
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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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