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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.splunk.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Tobias Oetiker

Splunk Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

1999

2003

Current release

1.2, November 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

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

Server operating systems

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

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