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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewopennms.github.io/­newtswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOpenNMS GroupSAP, formerly SybaseSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122013201419942003
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandrashared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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HiveInfluxDBNewtsSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSplunk
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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