DBMS > InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

2003

2023

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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