DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.leanxcale.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Rackspace

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2003

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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

through Apache Derby

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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