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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CrateDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Database based on LuceneMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#215  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.68
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#12  Vector DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#86  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#323  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score91.27
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcratedb.comhsqldb.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcratedb.com/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCrateOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20162013200120152003
Current release5.8.1, August 20242.7.2, June 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes, limitedno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)Java, SQLErlangyes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDnono 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 RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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