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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. LevelDB vs. OrientDB vs. Splunk

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldborientdb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperGoogleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplunk Inc.
Initial release20162010201120102003
Current release8.1, December 20181.23, February 20213.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language, no joinsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersyesnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and roles

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