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DBMS > RRDtool vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison RRDtool vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. Splunk

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NameRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open Source Time Series DBMSA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsiridb.comsolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.siridb.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperTobias OetikerCesbitApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.
Initial release1999201720062003
Current release1.8.0, 20229.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableCJava
Server operating systemsHP-UX
Linux
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoNumeric datayes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava pluginsyes
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsyesAccess rights for users and roles

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