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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MaxDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

maxdb.sap.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Kyligence, Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

1984

2003

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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 Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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