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DBMS > Graphite vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Splunk vs. VelocityDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAnalytics Platform for Big DataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.splunk.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperChris DavisSplunk Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release200620032011
Current release7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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