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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch 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
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overvieworigodb.comwww.snowflake.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdborigodb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsRobert Friberg et alSnowflake Computing Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release201220132009 infounder the name LiveDB20142003
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languagenoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationyesMulti-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 integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno 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 persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemsimple rights management via user accountsRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles
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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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