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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. KairosDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

origodb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

kairosdb.github.io

origodb.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Robert Friberg et al

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2003

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

simple password-based access control

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and roles

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