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DBMS > BigObject vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big DataTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.splunk.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SiteWhereSplunk Inc.Vaticle
Initial release2015201020032016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
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 searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigObjectSiteWhereSplunkTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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