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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

boilerbay.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.splunk.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Splunk Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2002

1999

2003

2009

Current release

4.0

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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 and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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