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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteopentsdb.netwww.splunk.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2011200920032014
Current release3.2.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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