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DBMS > Firebolt vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Splunk

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.CCRi and othersSplunk Inc.
Initial release2020201420132003
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono 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
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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