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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SingleStore vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.singlestore.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.singlestore.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

SingleStore Inc.

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2003

2011

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

8.5, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license 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++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

simple password-based access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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