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DBMS > Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperChris DavisquasardbSiteWhereSplunk Inc.
Initial release2006200920102003
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono 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 infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles

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