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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Splunk

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGeoSpockChris DavisMicrosoftSplunk Inc.
Initial release200620102003
Current release2.0, September 2019V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptPythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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