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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. Splunk

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFoundationDBCCRi and othersRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSplunk Inc.
Initial release20132014201319932003
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.0.0, May 20242.7.6, April 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlynonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno 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.depending on storage layeryes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles
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FoundationDBGeoMesaInfluxDBOpenQM infoalso called QMSplunk
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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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