DBMS > Axibase vs. Hive vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hive vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2015

2013

2003

Current release

15585

3.1.3, April 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
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

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

yes

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

none

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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