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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

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Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

machbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Chris Davis

Machbase

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2006

2013

1994

2003

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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