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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

griddb.net

opentsdb.net

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2011

2010

2003

Current release

5.1, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

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Enterprise Search Engines almost double their popularity in the last 12 months
2 July 2014, Paul Andlinger

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Recent citations in the news

TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
1 November 2020, global.toshiba

Toshiba launches cloudy managed IoT database service running its own GridDB
8 April 2021, The Register

Now Features Scale-Out and Scale-Up combo for Petabyte-scale Data Management
3 December 2019, global.toshiba

Amazon Proposes to Develop New Data Center Campus in Virginia
26 August 2022, w.media

’s SQL Interface, Aims to Accelerate Open Innovation
17 June 2020, global.toshiba

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Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

Brain Monitoring with Kafka, OpenTSDB, and Grafana
5 August 2016, KDnuggets

LogicMonitor Rolls a Time Series Database for Finer-Grain Reporting
1 June 2016, The New Stack

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SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

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5 September 2024, Analytics Insight

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

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