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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. ObjectBox vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. ObjectBox vs. Splunk vs. XTDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAnalytics Platform for Big DataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.splunk.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationObjectBox LimitedSplunk Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2012201720032019
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users and roles
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