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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cratedb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Crate

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2007

2013

2015

2003

2022

Current release

11.2, August 2024

5.8.1, August 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes, limited

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions (Javascript)

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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