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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. openGauss vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.cockroachlabs.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Huawei and openGauss community

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2019

2013

2003

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

ANSI SQL 2011

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C++
Java

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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