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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Splunk vs. TypeDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.splunk.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

typedb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

Splunk Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2013

2012

2003

2016

Current release

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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