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DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Splunk

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Search engine
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release2006201020152003
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles

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