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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

orientdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2010

1999

2014

2003

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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