DBMS > BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Speedb

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

2020

2003

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source 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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users and roles

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