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DBMS > KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Analytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netrethinkdb.comwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132011200920031987
Current release1.2.2, November 20182.4.1, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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