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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. NSDb vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. NSDb vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAnalytics Platform for Big DataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgnsdb.iowww.splunk.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSplunk Inc.
Initial release2012201720032009
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesno

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