DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Splunk vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Splunk vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.splunk.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2003

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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