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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
RDF store
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
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggreptime.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.splunk.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.greptime.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGreptime Inc.Splunk Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122022201320032018
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustGoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono 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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemSimple rights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control
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Apache DruidGreptimeDBInfluxDBSplunkTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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