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DBMS > Datomic vs. FeatureBase vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FeatureBase vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Splunk

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.featurebase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.featurebase.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCognitectMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20122017200920172003
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232022, May 20220.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes, in Luayes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonono 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 persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and roles

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