DBMS > BoltDB vs. Databend vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Databend vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.gridgain.com

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Databend Labs

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2021

2007

2013

2003

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data 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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles

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