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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. SiriDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

realm.io/docs

docs.siridb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Cesbit

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2011

2014

2017

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

Numeric data

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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