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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financemachbase.comrocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMachbaseFacebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20132013201320012003
Current release15585V8.0, August 20239.4.0, June 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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