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DBMS > Citus vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. MarkLogic vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GridDB vs. H2GIS vs. MarkLogic vs. Splunk

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataSpatial extension of H2Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.citusdata.comgriddb.netwww.h2gis.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.griddb.netwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperToshiba CorporationCNRSMarkLogic Corp.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20102013201320012003
Current release8.1, December 20185.1, August 202211.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyes infoSQL92no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infobased on H2yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on H2Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users and roles

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