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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Analytics Platform for Big DataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltbrytlyt.iocloud.google.com/­spannerwww.splunk.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.brytlyt.iocloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBrytlytGoogleSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20132016201720032013
Current release5.0, August 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, C++ and CUDAGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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