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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Splunk vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Splunk Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2019

2003

2014

Current release

15585

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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