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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JaguarDB vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

2003

Current release

3.3 July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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