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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Splunk vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.splunk.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

SiteWhere

Splunk Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2011

2010

2003

2015

Current release

3.6, May 2018

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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