DBMS > BigObject vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

2017

2013

2003

Current release

15.5, September 2020

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users and roles

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