DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.splunk.com

sqrrl.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2014

2003

2012

2018

Current release

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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