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DBMS > jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. Sqrrl

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAnalytics Platform for Big DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.splunk.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSplunk Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release19912011201520032012
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnonoAccess rights for users and rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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