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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 HBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteopentsdb.netsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunktrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2011200120032014
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial 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 languageJavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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 persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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