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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB vs. Splunk

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitecachelot.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orgquestdb.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology IncSplunk Inc.
Initial release20152013200320142003
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID for single-table writesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles
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Cachelot.ioInfluxDBMemcachedQuestDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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