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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. HarperDB vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.harperdb.io

www.splunk.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

HarperDB

Splunk Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2003

2010

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.1, August 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 for querying

SQL-like data manipulation statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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