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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.exasol.com

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Exasol

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2017

2010

2003

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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