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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. Splunk

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteblueflood.ioopentsdb.netwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSplunk Inc.
Initial release2013200820112003
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users and roles

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