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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Embarcadero

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

1984

1989

2011

2003

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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