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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. MarkLogic vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.marklogic.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.marklogic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2019

2001

2013

2003

Current release

11.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

SQL92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users and roles

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