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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Newts vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Axibase Corporation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

2013

2003

Current release

15585

5.10, January 2022

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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