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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Derby vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

1997

2015

2003

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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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