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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Spotify

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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