DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

drill.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2013

2003

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users and roles

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