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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. VoltDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationEmbeddable 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 DataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  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
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerocksdb.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFacebook, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132013200120032010
Current release155859.4.0, June 20243.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnonoyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
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
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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