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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Splunk

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

2013

2019

2003

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

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