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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.featurebase.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2009

2010

2003

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

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

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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, using Linux fsync

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

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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