DBMS > Badger vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gridgain.com

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

DGraph Labs

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2007

1995

2003

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial, open source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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