DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Brytlyt vs. Dolt vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Brytlyt vs. Dolt vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

brytlyt.io

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.dolthub.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Brytlyt

DoltHub Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2018

2013

2003

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users and roles

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