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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. InfluxDB vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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NameDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitenewdatabase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperMobiland AGCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20182013201720132003
Current release1.1.263, October 20222.7.6, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20189.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesProprietary Sharding systemSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyesno 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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlWindows-Profilesimple rights management via user accountsnonoAccess rights for users and roles
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DataFSInfluxDBIRONdbRocksDBSplunk
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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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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