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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Key-value store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
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Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.splunk.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splunk Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2009

2003

2011

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

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
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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