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

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Name

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2010

2014

2003

2019

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
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

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

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

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

yes

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