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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comopentsdb.netrethinkdb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCCRi and othersKineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splunk Inc.
Initial release20142012201120092003
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20212.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operationsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and roles

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