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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.splunk.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Splunk Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2012199120032018
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 searchingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and rolesno

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