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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. InfluxDB vs. LMDB vs. Memcached vs. Splunk

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.memcached.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSymasDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSplunk Inc.
Initial release20152013201120032003
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62.7.6, April 20240.9.32, January 20241.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetGoCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languagenonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nononoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono 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 persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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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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