DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BoltDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. BoltDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

github.com/boltdb/bolt

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

2003

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID for single-table writes

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

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

A real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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