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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ vs. WakandaDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Chris Davis

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2006

2003

2012

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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 rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

yes

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