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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.gigaspaces.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2013

2003

Current release

2.1, December 2018

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

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

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

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