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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

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

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2003

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Multi-source replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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