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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.splunk.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2011

1994

2003

2014

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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