DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Chris Davis

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

2006

2003

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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