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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. InfluxDB vs. openGauss vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 metricsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiAnalytics Platform for Big DataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.splunk.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsHuawei and openGauss communitySplunk Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122013201920032020
Current release29.0.1, April 20242.7.6, April 20243.0, March 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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 queryingSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
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
C
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno 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.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenonoyes infousing specific database classes
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, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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