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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

DGraph Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2014

2009

2003

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users and roles

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