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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Widely used in-process key-value store

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

blueflood.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.scylladb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

docs.scylladb.com

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

ScyllaDB

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

1994

2015

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

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, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined 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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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