DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Splunk

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2004

2003

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

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4 February 2016, bigchaindb.com

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20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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27 September 2016, CoinDesk

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